So do it anyway, not like they could ever know. It’s not a very enforceable thing is it.

And the name is derived from an awful slur too. The history of that is really messed up.

Obligatory Goldberg link since lots of people these days are still unaware that SteamWorks DRM is easily bypassed these days (you don’t even need to patch the files, you can just bypass it).

Maybe recursive DNS will become much more popular. I’d love to see faith and compliance with ICANN and IANA erode at least a little bit. Centralized DNS is the Achilles heel of the open internet, and yes that extends to activitypub based platforms which federate via domains.

i’m not blaming other pirates for anything. What i’m saying is there are consequences for some things. For example, many things are not acted upon because corporations and governments arent aware of them.

Companies like Valve and Nintendo are absolutely aware of piracy and exploits in their systems, to assume they are not is extremely naive, and is one of the basis for people blaming pirates. The ignorant and incorrect idea that they don’t know and that piracy being popular makes them aware is the primary reason for hostility and gatekeeping in the piracy community. Ironically it actually hurts preservation efforts by making content less available to people.

Or some things are just ignored because its cheaper for them to do nothing about it than act.

That’s not really a thing either, if it were they’d ignore piracy almost completely and let people just buy games as they normally do, it’s cheaper and easier for them to do nothing, rather than waste money with copyright trolling. So this really isn’t a good argument.

Don’t you see the necessity of trying to manage how corporations might respond?

I’ve explained how their reactions to ““abuse”” are largely an excuse already so I’ll just say this. It isn’t worth it to try and play 4D chess with companies like this because at the end of the day they’re cheating at it. Even if you were able to get no one to use any kind of exploit in Family sharing or similar courtesy projects these companies do to foster goodwill, you’d find that in the end they would still choose to discontinue or neuter it because of ““abuse”” and that people will be said that “people abusing it ruin it for everyone” because that fostering of goodwill does wonders fro boosting credibility and getting people to believe their greed motivated lies.

You’re not going to stop them from getting worse, and nothing the rest of us do can either, short of overthrowing the companies, and ending capitalism. Something that ultimately isn’t likely to happen any time soon. What you’re forgetting here is that when I say companies use abuse as an excuse I really mean the excuse part. They’ll say it’s happening even if it’s not significant, and they’ll say it’s happening even if it isn’t happening at all. If they get tired of the courtesy and want to go back to making more money they’ll lie and say they’re ending it because of abuse and people who do blame pirates will eat that excuse up even if it’s a lie and begin attacking pirates for it, like they always do. Do you see it yet?

You’re not spewing false nonsense, that person is talking out of the ass, and trying to push their own personal opinions about piracy and DRM bypassing as if they are objective or officially sanctioned by the community moderators or the instance staff. They are not. Their opinion that we shouldn’t use these tools because Valve is somehow good is just that, an opinion. Not a very correct one at that since Valve has shown they aren’t good guys before like this person says.

That makes sense. Everyone has different motives and reasons for pirating, would make sense that we wouldn’t push one thing or the other like that person is suggesting. Thanks for your feedback.

Ok @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com Let’s settle this debate, does the dbzer0 instance and/or the Piracy community here push the “Good Guy Valve” stance and thus consider this bad practice, or do we consider Valve to be like any other company which uses DRM in regards to this situation. That is to say it is permitted and encouraged like breaking any other DRM.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.

If dn0 isn’t available, another community mod or instance admin can feel free to answer this, I CCed you in the bottom of this comment. I apologize if the ping was annoying.

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I really wish us as a community would stop blaming other pirates for the bad or evil decisions of companies, that applies to exploitative decisions like limitation of abilites via fake DRM (by the way, you can bypass SteamWorks DRM very VERY Easily) or when it comes to copyright trolling and takedown requests.

The truth is they would rather us blame and ultimately shoot at each other because, well I think others have said it best: “United we’re strong, divided we’re weak” and blaming other people for takedown requests or bad decisions from companies is exactly the kind of division they want, that benefits them. Because when we’re divided or don’t see them as the enemy, it’s easier to pick us off and there will be no retaliation against them.

Get out of that mindset of going against other pirates, it is the corporations who screw things up, they do it of their own accord. Blaming pirates is an excuse because they’re bored and want to make more money, otherwise why would they be adding ads to paid plans? Why would they be trying to sell games multiple times in a row. They don’t actually care if people are nice to them, they probably see capitulating as weakness. We’re suckers for playing along with the game in the first place, that’s how they see it.

Are you full of shit? Their family sharing is the most locked down garbage there is, they limit you to families of 4 and make you wait a year before you can join another family. That’s not a courtesy, that’s a fake courtesy so they can say they provided something, and claim to be “good guy Valve”, actually that’s not true, they never claimed to be good guy Valve. It doesn’t help that they made publishers able to mark games as not family share supported.

While they added so much to the Family share feature they also took away a lot and locked it down considerably. I’m not going to pretend the fancy new options and ability to add 4 accounts is an upgrade, you get locked out of it for a year if you join and leave and any publisher can refuse to participate.

Let us not pretend that Valve is somehow trying to do good, they’re trying to make themselves look good while providing less, and when people point out the shortcomings they try to turn us against each other by saying it was “because of abuse”, the real reason is because they don’t want to give it their all.

That makes sense, better late than never I guess. Which for people not registered to that forum it might as well be never.

You should also upload it somewhere else so people can have access to it without registering to a shady forum they might not necessarily know or trust.

VLC should just work with everything needed to play DVDs. Like other commenters are saying there’s probably something else wrong if VLC isn’t working to play your DVDs.

The main Reason I’ve done it is to install KOreader since it handles other formats, especially PDFs better than the stock Reader. Though you can also run your own homebrew apps as well like other people have pointed out. I personally don’t bother though since Ereaders are usually best for a single purpose, reading ebooks on an eink display, and mediocre at best for other applications. The eink display tends to be its Achilles heel when it comes to anything that isn’t reading ebooks, at least in my opinion.

You can use Audacity to record from the Speaker output internally. Just make sure there isn’t anything else running that could interfere or make noise (anything connected to push notifications), and you should definitely make sure volume isn’t too high else it’ll peak and distort.

Avoid Spotify Downloaders, they are a Scam that often just searches for the music on YouTube. For true Spotify exclusives (or ones that just aren’t on YouTube) the songs from those will be wrong, or if they’re a downloader that is better at matching the songs, will just error because it couldn’t find it.

I use almost the same setup, except I don’t use Windows on Desktop.

qbittorrent on PC and libretorrent on Android.

You really can’t take a hint can you?

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Torrents-CSV looks really good. It would be great if they had a search plugin for that honestly. It’s just nice to be able to initiate downloads from Qbittorent itself.